Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Elling
Hi Matt, On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Matt Breitbach wrote: > So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm > wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or > are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results on > the first

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-23 8:21, Ian Collins wrote: If you use "du" on the ZFS filesystem, you'll see the logical storage size, which takes into account compression and sparse bytes. So the "du" size should be not greater than "ls" size. It can be significantly bigger: ls -sh x 2 x du -sh x 1K x Pun accept

Re: [zfs-discuss] early save the date: What's New and What's Coming in ZFS for illumos, Jan 10

2011-11-22 Thread Zaeem Arshad
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Deirdre Straughan < deirdre.straug...@joyent.com> wrote: > Yes, I do plan to stream (assuming no technical difficulties) and record > the session - just ordered new AV equipment in fact (you can thank Bryan > for that). I'd like to encourage and assist worldwide pa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/23/11 04:58 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-11-23 7:39, Matt Breitbach wrote: So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-23 7:39, Matt Breitbach wrote: So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results on the first few pages, so I headed here.

[zfs-discuss] Compression

2011-11-22 Thread Matt Breitbach
So I'm looking at files on my ZFS volume that are compressed, and I'm wondering to myself, "self, are the values shown here the size on disk, or are they the pre-compressed values". Google gives me no great results on the first few pages, so I headed here. This really relates to my VMware environ

Re: [zfs-discuss] SUMMARY: mounting datasets from a read-only pool with aid of tmpfs

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-23 2:26, Lori Alt wrote: Did you try a temporary mount point? zfs mount -o mountpoint=/whatever - lori I do not want to lie so I'll delay with a definite answer. I think I've tried that, but I'm not certain now. I'll try to recreate the situation later and respond responsibly ;) If

Re: [zfs-discuss] SUMMARY: mounting datasets from a read-only pool with aid of tmpfs

2011-11-22 Thread Lori Alt
Did you try a temporary mount point? zfs mount -o mountpoint=/whatever - lori On 11/22/11 15:11, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello all, I'd like to report a tricky situation and a workaround I've found useful - hope this helps someone in similar situations. To cut the long story short, I could

[zfs-discuss] SUMMARY: mounting datasets from a read-only pool with aid of tmpfs

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, I'd like to report a tricky situation and a workaround I've found useful - hope this helps someone in similar situations. To cut the long story short, I could not properly mount some datasets from a readonly pool, which had a non-"legacy" mountpoint attribute value set, but the mo

Re: [zfs-discuss] early save the date: What's New and What's Coming in ZFS for illumos, Jan 10

2011-11-22 Thread Deirdre Straughan
Yes, I do plan to stream (assuming no technical difficulties) and record the session - just ordered new AV equipment in fact (you can thank Bryan for that). I'd like to encourage and assist worldwide participation in all meetings, though I recognize that an evening time slot here in California isn'

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: >> Or maybe not.  I guess this was findroot() in sol10 but in sol11 this >> seems to have gone away. > > I haven't used sol11 yet, so I can't say for certain. > But it is possible that the default boot (without findroot) > would use the bootfs pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] virtualbox rawdisk discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-11-22 10:24, Frank Cusack пишет: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Frank Cusack mailto:fr...@linetwo.net>> wrote: grub does need to have an idea of the device path, maybe in vbox it's seen as the 3rd disk (c0t2), so the boot device name written to grub.conf is "disk3" (whatever